Otago Daily Times: Political News

Eleven candidates will contest the Northland byelection,
including a breakaway party of former National Party
supporters set up by farmers and businesspeople campaigning
on a platform of "old-fashioned values".

Labour leader Andrew Little told Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott in their private meeting that Australia's air
strikes against Isis in Iraq make sense because the Iraqis
were saying air strikes were making a difference.